Postgraduate students of the Pariyaram Medical College (PMC) are in distress over what they call negligence on the part of the institution which led 15 courses losing the Medical Council of India (MCI) recognition.
The college’s PG Graduates’ Association president, Shafi P.K., said that only two non-clinical courses, namely community medicine and physiology, out of the total 17 PG courses started in the PMC in 2011-12, were granted MCI recognition. He told a press conference here on Wednesday that the college authorities were not seriously addressing the issue. The recognition was denied as the college management failed to comply with infrastructural requirements stipulated by the council. He said the PG students were planning to start an agitation and a token strike was held on Wednesday.
Mr. Shafi said that as per the MCI stipulation, the entire infrastructure should have been ready for inspection by the time of the examination of the first batch. The management had not complied with the stipulations when the MCI team visited in July last year, he said adding that inadequate infrastructure, faculty and training facilities were the reasons cited by the MCI for not granting the recognition. Association office-bearers said that they had sought the help of teachers and the parent-teacher association. The management had expelled the students who refused to pay their fees in protest against its laxity in securing the recognition, they said.
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